Both your face-to-face and your online audience is likely multitasking. They might be participating in chat / backchannel. They might be blogging. They might be taking notes. They might be checking and responding to email. They might be figuring out where to go to dinner.

The comments suggest that there are things that presenters and learners should do to to address this. Hence, this month's big question is:

New Presenter and Learner Methods & Skills?

Related questions:

What should we do as presenters in this multitasking world?

Should presenters coach (or ban) people away from multitasking?

As a presenter, how do you deal with the backchannel effectively? (I personally can't present and work with the backchannel at the same time.)

How does the backchannel fit with effective note taking?

What could a presenter do in 2 minutes at the start of a presentation to get this all to work out well?

What should we do as learners?

What if the presenter is not making effective use of our time?

What have you seen that worked really well?

What didn't work well? What would you do to change it?

Any tools that make this better?

I'm hoping to learn a lot out of this discussion which is certainly far bigger than my original post.

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